Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken will remain in my heart as one of the best stories I've ever had the chance to experience.
The adventure of Dai was a story of a young boy starting from nothing in order to become the hero who saves the world along with a cast of really memorable characters.
With training and character development we see these characters grow over the course of the show, forming a sense of responsibility and overcoming their personal fears and desires.
Their goal is to stop the commander of demon army Hadlar along with his lieutenants. We're introduced to this conflict really early on in the story and we come to see it expanding and reaching its climax in an EPIC final arc. All the villains are memorable with their own personalities and developments and a few well-placed plot twists, that you won't see coming, keep the action going and viewer investment to the maximum.
The world is vastly expanded and helps the viewer immerse themselves in this fantasy setting.
It also helps that the power system is really well balanced, completely devoid of plot-holes, as all characters feel just as strong as they need to be and all of the power-ups make sense and are mostly achieved through training. It never throws the power scaling off the window for the sake of a fight being more spectacular than it needs to.
The Dragon Quest manga was one of the first shonen manga, establishing and solidifying the tropes we all know and love to see in today's modern shonen.
It is an underrated classic gem that everyone needs to experience once in their life in anime.
Oct 22, 2022
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